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“I believe that structure is a product, not a process.”

Re: In- and Out-of- core editors http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/865c7dadceb68cbb (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“The secret to feeling great about yourself is not to be found in searching for people who are less than you and then show yourself superior to them, but in searching for people who are more than you and then show yourself worthy of their company.”

Re: CLL statistics for 2002 (was: Looking for Lisp compiler) http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3250612397276876@naggum.no.html (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush."”

Re: Setting a property in a symbol http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/80bdf64552957f61 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Lisp

“Please note: if you think the above is offensive, it is of course a joke and you did not get it. If you do not find it offensive, it is of course not a joke, and you did not get it. This is not a joke. Get it?”

Re: Preventing a class from being instantiated http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3216091792432486@naggum.net.html (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“This is your brain. This is Perl. This is your brain on Perl. Any questions?”

Re: can lisp do what perl does easily? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/fc76ebab1cb2f863 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Perl

“A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact."”

Re: Emacs inferior to XEmacs? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.programmer/msg/716a6bf5d03226a1 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell.”

Re: destroying CLOS objects http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/bb32931876c3a7cd (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.”

Re: PART TWO: winning industrial-use of lisp http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/856bccf3eff6ab53 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture.”

Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile." http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/922b65c2b29cc095 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, C++

“I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known.”

Re: can lisp do what perl does easily? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/fc76ebab1cb2f863 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Perl

“We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.”

Re: Upper limits of CL http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/b3b24fb7512f220f (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.”

Re: Lisp as glue language? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/711dfe3ce115d552 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Perl

“Excuse me while I barf in Larry Wall's general direction.”

Re: Some more misc. Lisp queries http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/d671a424235e9f18 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Perl